A record number of students have achieved a place at university on A-level results day.
Head of Ucas Mary Curnock Cook said 424,000 students will be offered their first or second choice of degree course.
Record numbers of students have been offered university places, as the latest A-level results show the gap between boys and girls achieving the top grades has narrowed for the first time in five years.
Meanwhile the phenomenon of freebies and inducements being dangled in front of students to take up those places is also on the rise.
Nina Nannar reports from Sheffield:
Thousands of students around the UK have collected their A-level results.
Teenagers from England, Wales and Northern Ireland will collect results which could determine where they are heading to university.
Teenagers across the country get their A-level results on Thursday, but what do you do if they are not quite what you hoped for?